Although the census data is CC-BY, I suspect the reason they want you to register and login to access it from their website is so they can track what people are downloading. This is the first time it's been freely available on the web and I am guessing that they are expected to report on what's being accessed and by whom (individuals vs companies, which state, within or beyond Australia) which needs you to login. Knowing interest levels in the different data sets what might alter the priorities on the analysis they do with the census data.
Toby, re your visualisations, they are very effective - far more so than the spreadsheets themselves! If you are willing to share your scripts, maybe we could put them on the WMAU website. It would be nice to have a "toolkit" section for working with Australian datasets like the census. Kerry _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Toby Hudson Sent: Tuesday, 30 April 2013 1:02 AM To: Wikimedia Australia Chapter Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [---] Australian Census Data Released Under CC License, But Official Site Tries To Make It Hard To Download I find the ABS better than most government departments. Although I haven't found stable deeplinks to census data, I'm reasonably happy with everything else. Just a reminder that every timeseries the ABS makes available (all 64293 of them) has been plotted, is available on Commons, and gets updated to incorporate additional datapoints and new datasets: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_using_data_from_the_Austr alian_Bureau_of_Statistics https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Statistics_of_Australia About one hundred of these are in use on en-wiki, but I think there's potential for plenty more. Also, if it's census data you want, I have written the scripts to make maps like these for any census question (in the Basic Community Profile so far) for any geographic subdivision method: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SVG_maps_using_data_from_the_Aus tralian_Bureau_of_Statistics I'd like to improve them before doing a mass upload, but if you want anything in particular, let me know. Toby / 99of9
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